Drawer containing cabinet



Jan. 30, 1951 Filed Aug. 9, 1946 J. E. MOBERG DRAWER CONTAINING CABINET 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Jan. 30, 1951 E, MOBER 2,539,963

DRAWER CONTAINING CABINET Filed Aug. 9, 1946 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR.

EREIME E. MDBERG Patented Jan. 30, 1951 DRAWER CONTAINING CABINET Jerome E. Moberg, Ellicottville, N. Y assignor to Alfred E. Taylor, Detroit, Mich.

Application August 9, 1946, Serial No. 689,431

2 Claims.

This invention relates generally to cabinets and more especially to those of the drawer type.

Objects of this invention, are to provide a simple, inexpensive and easily manufactured cabinet of the type described; to provide such a cabinet having the minimum number of parts; to provide such a cabinet in which the cabinet wall is deformed to support the drawers; to provide a drawer body of single piece construction which is provided with a shoulder which is supported on and slidable on the deformed cabinet wall; to provide such a drawer body having an integral drawer pull; and to'generally improve structures of the type described.

With the above as well as other and more detailed objects in view, which appear from the following description and the appended claims, there is shown in the drawings a preferred but illustrative embodiment of the invention.

In the drawings, which are to be taken as part of this specification and in which like elements are indicated in the various figures by the same reference numerals,

Fig. 1 is a view in perspective of a. cabinet embodying the invention and in which a portion of one of the drawers has been broken away to more clearly illustrate its construction;

Fig. 2 is a broken developed view of the side and rear walls of the cabinet shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3v is a cross-sectional view of the cabinet shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a view taken substantially along the line 44 of Fig. 1 with certain of the parts broken away to illustrate various constructional features of the cabinet;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the cabinet drawers;

Fig. 6 is a developed View of the drawer with the formed drawer shown dotted;

Figs. '7 and 8 are views showing details of construction of the drawer.

Although only a single specific embodiment of the invention has been shown and described in detail, it will be appreciated that various modifications in the form, number, and arrangement of the parts may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention and the invention is to be limited only bythe scope of the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings by characters of refintegral single member or piece of sheet material l3 such as sheet metal which is first crenelated longitudinally to provide pairs of opposed surfaces [4 and III lying in a plane substantially perpendicular to the plane of the piece I3 and extending longitudinally of at least the portions of the piece I3 forming the side walls 2 and 4. The portions I8 of the wall members 2 and 4 connecting the opposed surfaces I4 and I6 lie in one substantially plane surface and the other portions 221 of the wall members 2 and 4 which connect the different pairs of surfaces I l-I6 lie in a second substantially plane surface displaced from the plane surface I8 a distance substantially equal to the width of the opposed surfaces I4 and I6. When the crenelated sheet metal member I3 is bent into U-shape form to form the side walls I 2 and 4 and the rear wall 6, the surface portions 29 will be inwardly displaced with respect to the surface portions I8 whereby the opposed surfaces I4 and I6 will co-operate to provide guides for the drawer members I2. If desired, the front edge portion of the member I3 may be rebent upon itself as at 22 to make a more sightly front edge and also to add strength to the wall members 2 and 4.

The top and bottom walls 8 and II] are identical and comprise a piece of sheet material such as sheet steel which has its marginal edge portions bent outwardly from the plane of the material to provide a marginal flange 24 which telescopes about the top and bottom edge portions of the member I3 whereby the side and rear walls 2, 4, and 6 may be secured to the walls 8 and Ill as by spot welding.

The drawer members I2 are fabricated from a single sheet of material such as sheet metal 36 which has its rear corners cut away as at 32 and its front corners cut away as at 34 to provide flange portions 35 and 38 which, when bent upwardly from the plane of the sheet metal 38 (the center section 40 of which forms the bottom of the drawer members I2) form the side walls of the drawer members I2. The rear edge portion 42 and front edge portion 43 are bent upwardly to form the rear and front walls of the drawer members I2, respectively, while the portions 36 and 38 are bent upwardly from the plane of the drawer bottom 40 and at such a width that the drawer will easily fit between the cabinet wall surface portions 20. The portions 36 and 38 are then bent outwardly and upwardly to provide an abutting side wall portion or shoulder 44 which is adapted to rest on the upwardly facing surface I6 of the opposed surfaces l4 and IS. The outer surfaces of the portions 36 and 38 above the shoulders 44 co-operate with the wall surface portions E8 to hold the drawer members 12 against undesired lateral movement. The top edge surface of the members 36 and 38 are of such dimension that they terminate just below the opposed surface l4 and co-operate therewith to hold the drawer member against undesired tilting upon movement of the drawer members 12 forwardly of the wall'members 2 and 4. Top rearwardly extending portions of the portions 36 and 38 have cars 48 left extending therefrom which, when folded at right angles to the plane of the surfaces 38 and 38, provide tabs which may be welded to the upturned rear portion 42 to reinforce the drawer member I2.

The front wall 43 has a lower surface portion 50 which is left planar and which is of slightly greater width than the upper portion 52 which is rebent inwardly to provide an outwardly opening gripping element or handle 54 extending throughout the width of the drawer member 12 whereby it may be manually gripped for withdrawal from the walls 2 and 4.

If partitions are desired within the drawer members 12, inwardly extending dimples 51 may be formed along the interengaging line between the partitions 58-60 and the drawer body, which dimples 51 may be slotted whereby they guide and hold the partitions 58 and 60.

It may now be seen that this construction provides a cabinet which is very economical of manufacture, being made entirely from sheets of metal; which require the minimumof welding; and which may be made by a minimum of tools. The cabinet is light in weight, neat in appearance and economical of manufacture.

What is claimed and is desired to be secured by United States Letters Patent is as follows:

1. In a cabinet, an integral substantially U- shaped member forming the side and rear walls of the cabinet, said side walls having a section deformed inwardly to provide an upwardly facing shoulder, and a drawer having side walls, each said drawer side wall having laterally spaced upper and lower portions interconnected by an integral intermediate portion to form a downwardly facing shoulder extending longitudinally of each drawer wall and adapted to abut against 4 said upwardly facing shoulder whereby said drawer is supported for sliding movement in said side member walls.

2. In a cabinet, a single piece of sheet material forrned into U-shape, the substantially parallel spaced side wall members of said material forming side walls for the cabinet, each said side wall having a plurality of spaced integral inwardly and outwardly laterally offset portions with a plurality of spaced integral lateral connecting portions providing pairs of opposed spaced shoulders, a plurality of sheet material drawers having side walls, said drawer side walls comprising integral inwardly and outwardly laterally offset portions cooperable respectively with individual ones of said inwardly and outwardly offset supporting wall portions, said drawer side Walls having integral lateral connecting portions adapted to engage an individual one of said pairs of shoulders to limit movement of said drawer in a downward direction, the top edge of said drawer side wall being engageable individually with the opposite one of said pairs of shoulders to prevent un-due tilting of said drawer when pulled partially outward of said U-shaped material.

JEROME E. MOBERG'.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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